Now that I wrote that... MATLAB is totally worth the money. A nice option for reproducible research is also to develop on MATLAB and just make sure that OCTAVE can run it, too. Nice when you don't want to worry about N licenses for deploying on a HPC cluster. Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM g...@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.” --Thompson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Grant Rettke <g...@wisdomandwonder.com> wrote: > Octave is an option, too: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ > Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM > g...@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ > “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates > ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) > “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop > taking it seriously.” --Thompson > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Ken Mankoff <mank...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Marvin, >> >> * On 2014-07-09 at 18:37, Doyley, Marvin M. wrote: >>> I notice that you prefer to use python rather than matlab. Is there a >>> reason for this ? Matlab is free at my institution so cost is not an >>> issue. >> >> An additional blog post (with good discussion and links to other posts) >> on the Python v. MATLAB debate: >> >> http://lorenabarba.com/blog/why-i-push-for-python/ >> >> and >> >> http://phillipmfeldman.org/Python/Advantages_of_Python_Over_Matlab.html >> >> -k. >>